Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BADGE contest suggestions
Keywords: eggplant
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Date: 20 Nov 88 07:43:45 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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[My sister's best friends cousin-in-law saw a line eater once]

I'd like to add one further note to this BAADG discussion if I may.
And this is, that this year's contest really wasn't all that exciting.
Let's face it, for all of the hype, announcements, and articles in
Major Publications, the majority of the entries were late and gave
new meaning to the word "mediocre". They weren't all that good folks.
Oh, yeah, there was one entry that we all requested, nay, demanded to
see again, and I'm sure that was the winner. (Even though it's joke is SOOO
inside to the Amiga community it just won't work as an advertising demo). 
Nor were there that many entries to begin with, only a couple dozen or so.
So the question is, where the heck were you guys? Huh? Where was all that talent 
that this Net embodies? Most of the entries were tool-based, many of them 
showed little cleverosity, and even less overall skill, yet some of those
guys are going to be walking away with prizes. If there ever is going to
be another contest, and I hope that there will be, start work NOW, don't
wait until 3 weeks before the deadline, and ship a half finished program.

And don't think that you'll be crowded out by all of the hot-shot developers
there. I say this because only a 3 or 4 entries came from BAADG first off,
and many of us are just too busy to spend 3 months on the >>>Ultimate Demo<<<.

Just some randumb thoughts. . .






-- 
			   *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick ***
"Some people say I'm arrogant. But I know better then them" -
	 Mike Dukakis at the Al Smith Banquet
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]